But in this case it was site specific art made by us on the table at Bread & Ink. I made the drawing and my companions made the water rings. A collaboration.
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Harry Widman: Planning the show.
Harry and Mardy came down the other day and we went into the very interesting basement/storage/work area of the museum. David has built models of all the galleries which makes planning the shows a bit easier. This was a chance for Harry and Mardy to begin to really visualize how the show will look in […]
Monsieur Obama
I thought I wanted to keep politics out of “On the Way”, but in fact I can’t. My friend Lynn is living in France and sends along these images of French newspapers:
COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE
I’ve become a strong supporter of the “CSA” movement over the last couple of years. This year the season was 26 weeks, this week was week 23. Each week a truck parks for a couple of hours across the street from our house, downloading the many boxes for subscribers. Along with the box comes a […]
THE ARBOR CAFE
In the fall of 1991 my friend Lynne and I opened a restaurant. We sold it in 2004 and since then it has had 3 successive owners. On Halloween the Arbor Cafe closed its doors for good–the end of an era. Goodbye Arbor Cafe. It changed our lives in many ways.
Halloween visit…
Today we went to the Pioneer Cemetary looking for the Bush family grave sites. Asahel Bush died in 1913 after founding newspapers, banks and generally leaving a large imprint on our community and our state. A little band of volunteers–people like me who give time to the beautiful Victorian house museum called Bush House Museum–met […]
LIVING THE CREATIVE LIFE: HARRY WIDMAN II
The book is at the designer, the exhibition layout is planned, and soon the work will be collected for Harry’s retrospective show coming up in January, 2009, at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. Last Friday we visited the Widmans’ and sorted through Harry’s large studio. Roger put his choices of work for the show […]
The colors…
This weekend around town and in Portland, everywhere the same: you turn the corner and wow…banks of color. Shocking, delightful, spirit raising:
Beach Weekend
Last weekend the clear and cool beach, the beautiful Bay, a good fish dinner: